Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn) Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2013

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2013, Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera, Zootaxa 3653 (1), pp. 1-162 : 109

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:72A07BC6-AEB0-4EBC-AFA8-F5871065680F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5266901

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E46FF216-5E6E-C521-FF6F-BCACFDBAEAEC

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scientific name

Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn)
status

comb. nov.

Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn) View in CoL comb. nov.

Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn, 1897:34 View in CoL . Olivier, 1902:76; 1907:51. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:197.

Luciola (Luciola) cowleyi Blackburn. McDermott, 1966:102 View in CoL . Ballantyne, 1968:125. Ballantyne in Calder 1998:178. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000:58; 2009:22.

Luciola cowleyi Blackburn. Fu et al. 2012a:6 View in CoL .

Luciola quadricostata Pic, 1938:3 View in CoL . Ballantyne, 1968:125 (Synonymy).

Holotype. Male. Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn Australia, North Queensland: ( NHML).

Holotype. Male. Luciola quadricostata Pic North Australia (Natural History Museum, Basel).

Other specimens examined. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 12.27S, 130.50E, Darwin, male W. K. Hunt ( UQIC) GoogleMaps , 11 males ( SAMA) , male ( QMBA), 2 males ( MUMA) , 2 males, G. F. Hill ( UQIC) , 4 males G. F. Hill ( ANIC) , 6 males, G. F. Hill ( SAMA) ; 14 males, 5 larvae, 11–12.ii.1945, B. Malkin ( USNM) ; male, iii.1943, N. R Laird ( ANIC) . 12.33S, 131.02E, Virginia near Darwin, S M Gregg 24 males (Jan–March 1998; one male taken in Feb at light); 12 males (Feb and Dec 1999; 8 males taken in Feb at light; male taken in Dec at light); 2 males (March 2000, at light); 4 males (Feb and Dec 2001; one Dec male and 3 Feb. males taken at light) ( MAGNT) GoogleMaps . 13.45S, 138.41E, Daly River Mission, 2 males, 14.i.1974, at light, J. F. Hutchinson ( ANIC) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males small (5–5.5 mm long), pale brown, head deeply excavated between eyes; eyes very large, almost contiguous ventrally and bearing posterolateral excavations; inner two interstitial lines closest to sutural ridge well defined, outermost line nearest lateral margin moderately defined, second line in from lateral margin poorly defined; apical labial palpomere small, ovoid, entire; antennal length slightly less than GHW; labrum small, about as wide as long. Ventral surface of T8 without flanges and ridges. Aedeagus with a very short median lobe and broad hair bearing LL. Ballantyne (1968) redescribed and figured males and Ballantyne & Lambkin (2000) gave a short diagnosis.

Female. Not associated.

Larva. Larvae are associated by label data only. 8 mm long; dorsal surface very shiny, brown; without laterally explanate tergal margins; dorsal surface covered with short brown spines (all terga but the last bear 4 short rounded projections across their posterior margin).

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

UQIC

University of Queensland Insect Collection

SAMA

South Australia Museum

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

MAGNT

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

Genus

Pygoluciola

Loc

Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn)

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine L. 2013
2013
Loc

Luciola cowleyi Blackburn. Fu et al. 2012a:6

Fu, X. H. & Ballantyne, Lesley & Lambkin, Christine 2012: 6
2012
Loc

Luciola (Luciola) cowleyi Blackburn. McDermott, 1966:102

Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. 2000: 58
Calder, A. A. 1998: 178
Ballantyne, L. A. 1968: 125
McDermott, F. A. 1966: 102
1966
Loc

Luciola quadricostata

Ballantyne, L. A. 1968: 125
Pic, M. 1938: 3
1938
Loc

Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn, 1897:34

Lea, A. M. 1921: 197
Lea, A. M. 1909: 108
Olivier, E. 1907: 51
Olivier, E. 1902: 76
Blackburn, T. 1897: 34
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